Carroll Hurst is a co-founder of Keiter and a Director of Keiter Advisors. For more than 30 years, Carroll has applied his knowledge and expertise to provide audit, tax, and consulting services to privately-owned business organizations, estates, trusts, and foundations.

Carroll works in the following service areas:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Strategic planning, business succession and estate planning
• Structuring equity and debt financings
• Troubled debt restructuring
• Employee benefits and executive compensation, including consulting concerning various stock and cash incentive plans

Carroll represents numerous closely-held businesses in the foodservice distribution, manufacturing, construction, retail, wholesale, and service industries, as well as private equity and venture capital funds. Many of these businesses are second and third generation family owned and operated businesses.

Carroll’s services in the mergers and acquisitions area include valuation, interaction with investment banking firms and law firms during all stages of negotiations, structuring transactions, tax planning and modeling of after-tax cash flows from various transaction structures, due diligence assistance, and negotiation of various terms of the transaction. Carroll also regularly creates opportunities for clients with debt and equity capital raising instruments. These services include valuation assistance in the structuring of the entity and the terms of the debt or equity, the review of legal agreements related to these transactions, and negotiations of transaction terms on behalf of clients.

He speaks regularly on mergers & acquisitions issues and business succession planning.

Carroll is actively involved in Startup Virginia, which guides startup companies through the early stages of their business.

Professional Activities and Civic Associations

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Association for Corporate Growth, Richmond Chapter Past President
• Commonwealth of Virginia Venture Capital Roundtable
• Business Finance & Turnaround Association
• William Byrd Community House, Past Treasurer
• Richmond Ballet, Board member, Past President and Treasurer
• Richmond Unite, Board member
• Henrico County Industrial Development Authority Business Retention Committee

Education

Bachelor of Science in Accounting, summa cum laude, University of Richmond